I've read a lot about that is bad to redirect 404 page to the homepage (soft 404). But I want to know if it's a good idea to redirect, after some seconds, the user from the 404 page (with the error ...

We are building a local business classified website which has about 6000 unique listingsunder huge number of categories and sub-categories.
For each listing there is a details page in which we have ...

I would like to use localhost/projects/project1/page/x instead of localhost/projects/project1/index.php?page=x. But after I had redirected the URL in .htaccess using RewriteRule, it returned my 404 ...

I have a large directory with bars, restaurants, clubs etc. in Australia. I currently have 500+ venues indexed in Google with good pagerank. That's great!
Sometimes I need to delete a venue because ...

I am keep getting this 404 page not found error on my Google webmaster account. I am using a WordPress website. I checked every broken link but I didn't find where these links are coming from.
Here ...

This is what I did, first the site was indexed and we had over 10 lacks indexed entries, but some time later, our site links yields 404 for some of them and indexes were also getting reduced. Later we ...

I have a site where it promote offers, which typically have expiration dates.
The URLs look like www.mysite.com/some-unique-offer-that-will-expire
I want these pages to be indexed by search engines, ...

I have a website that is showing that there are attempts to access /rss in my server logs, but we don't have an RSS feed.
What is the best way to show that there is no RSS feed for my site? Should I ...

My website addresses has a hierarchy structure. When one page is requested, and it is not a valid address, it tries to find its parent, and if the later exists, it will show it. Now, my question is ...

In the AdSense dashboard, Google is reporting crawl errors for unexpected URLs. It shows that Google crawler was unable to access some of my 87 pages. When I checked those pages I found that I haven't ...

Looking at Google Analytics recently I noticed a strange phenomenon. For the past few weeks I had 3 unique users making 600 requests for an URL that is not being used anymore.
I investigated further ...

We've recently converted several of our websites to require HTTPS on all pages. HSTS headers have been set and rules added into Apache to 301 redirect all traffic from HTTP to HTTPS.
However, similar ...

I have a set of pages in user profiles which, depending on the user's actions, may or may not have any information on it. It's essentially a feed of the user's comments. Some users add comments, some ...

I'm a little confused between a 301 redirect, the javascript meta http-equiv="refresh approach and lastly using a 404 which can work out where you wanted to get to and then forward you on.
I can see ...

I use a javscript slider called LayerSlider. In Google Webmaster tools it is telling me I have a 404 error with the following link: http://www.example.com/js/layerslider-5/skins/. It says that my home ...

While looking through the access log of my webserver, I notice a few favicon requests that shows 404 error:
16:17:28 GET /folder/abc.jpg 200 http://example.com/ Mozilla... Firefox/31.0
16:17:28 GET ...

I have many pages from one year ago that were deleted and are returning a 404 error code, but two week ago after I cleared the content of my robots.txt, the errors in my Google Webmaster Tools reports ...

For any given URL, how can I (dis)confirm whether it returns an HTTP 404 status code?
I found this tool but isn't there a cleaner, more natural way to find out, independently of other people's tools?
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When I started managing my friends' website, I had found a folder in it with a bunch of garbage HTML files with names such as: free-nasscamd-server-31day, gorilla-quentin-trollip-pdf, etc... Assuming ...

I'm currently browsing through a local transparent proxy.
I'm receiving 404 responses from a couple of web hosts, although the proxy works perfectly with everything else; I was wondering whether it ...

After experiencing a very high amount of hits on my 404 page, I've started monitoring my website's Error Log. There I've found that through-out the day, there are several attempts at accessing admin ...